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Uttoxeter completed a good victory over a strong Barton side with a very good all round team performance.

Captain Walmsley won the toss and elected to field first on what he hoped would be a lively wicket after the week of rain.

The wicket didn’t disappoint and the bowlers got the side off to a good start severely restricting the Barton scoring rate. Skelham (1-47) was the 1st to strike, bowling a ball which just nipped away and caught the edge of Melidoni’s bat, Cottier the produce some acrobatics in the slips to take an excellent low one handed catch low to his right.

The Uttoxeter 1st team got back their season back on track with a big winning draw against Castle Donnington.

On a hot and humid day the Uttoxeter captain lost the toss and was very surprisingly asked to have a bat first.

Rob Birch and Sean Coates got the side off to a good start before Coates was bowled. Pete Atwell filling in at number 3 for the absent Tony Hayes looked impressive on his way to 14 before he edged to the keeper.

Rob Birch was back to his old self after his failure last week, notching up a steady 29 before lobbing a catch back to the bowler. The 73 run start the top 3 had given the away team provided a great platform for the middle order to build a dominant total.

Uttoxeter suffered a resounded defeat to fellow promotions chasers Brailsford in what was their worst performance of the year.

Captain Walmsley lost the toss and was surprisingly asked to have a bat on what looked to be a very batsman friendly wicket.

The innings got off to a terrible start and never really got any better.

Rob Birch was the first man to go, he was caught at square leg for his only 0 of the season.

Uttoxeter got their promotion chase back on track with a responding win against Nutbrook.

Playing at Nutbrook for the first time the game couldn’t have got off to a worse start for Uttoxeter with captain Walmsley losing the toss and seeing his side sent into bat and having both openers back inside the pavilion within the 1st 3 overs with only 5 runs on the board.

This however gave the two of the senior members of the side a chance to rebuild, Ian Bailey was in no mood to do this slowly. He smashed his way to a magnificent 96. At no point was he ever in trouble and he will feel slightly aggrieved by the way he cheaply gave his wicket away! Lobbing a catch to deep mid on trying to bring up his first ton of the year in style.

At the other end Tony Hayes was playing a more patient innings and just fed bailey who was making light work of the Nutbrook attack. The pair put on 150 for the 2nd wicket in very quick time and when Hayes was dismissed Uttoxeter had a great chance to build a commanding 1st innings score.